Word: united
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...approximately one a.m. a flaming ashcan appeared in the center of the yard. Soon, fifteen Cambridge firemen came rushing from their nocturnal slumbers to quench the celebration. Armed with two pumpers and a rescue unit, the men made quick work of the inferno as five firefighters overturned the container and the rest flooded its contents...
Fortnight ago, as Baghdad celebrated Army Day with a parade featuring endless gibes at "Western imperialism," Kassem promoted himself to the highest rank" in the Iraqi army (major general) and announced the formation of a new Baghdad garrison unit-the "Fifth Division," officered by men hand-picked for loyalty to the regime. Having thus assured him self of physical control of the capital, Kassem last week moved against two of the Communist-front organizations that have been keeping Baghdad in turmoil...
...University has agreed to sell the lot on Memorial Drive between Akron and Hingham Streets to the group of citizens that has been planning the 80-unit project. The final decision whether to put the plans into actual operation will follow within a month, McLay said...
...Maurice was a senior officer of an all-Christian unit of a Roman army in the 3rd century. Ordered to sacrifice to the Roman gods, the Christian legionaries refused, and St. Maurice and his men were killed...
Members objected that although their organization has functioned continuously since 1953, run for two years in the black, and developed an experienced producing unit and permanent company, it was ignored in favor of a group formed in 1956, which ran one summer season "at a large deflicit" and has since functioned "only as a booking agent...